NBC has called West Virginia US Senate race for Democrat Joe Manchin. PollTrack correctly predicted this. This is a key race for the Democrats, denying the GOP a key pick up. Without WV, the road for GOP control of the Senate just got a whole lot harder (if not impossible).

With a spate of key loses for the Democrats in US Houses races-- especially in Florida and Virginia--it is looking increasingly likely the the GOP will take over the house.

With two recent polls showing considerable tightening in the West Virginia U.S. Senate race--Democrat Joe Manchin now holds an aggregate +5.5% lead over GOP challenger, John Raese, 49% to 43.5%--PollTrack moves the race from Safe Democrat to Leaning Democrat

A new Rasmussen survey in West Virginia reports that incumbent Democratic governor Joe Manchin is way ahead of possible
Republican challenger John Raese in the special election for U.S. Senate, 51%
to 35%.

A newly released Rasmussen
survey reports that incumbent Democratic Gov. Joe Manchin hold a significant lead in the special election to be held later this year in West Virginia to fill the late
Sen. Robert Byrd's seat. Manchin leads Republican Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, 53% to 39%, and crushes the Republican Secretary, State Betty Ireland, 65% to 26%.

A poll from one of the most accurate pollsters in the 2008 national cycle, SurveyUSA, also reports that Creigh Deeds is pulling away in Virginia's Democratic primary for Governor: "24 hours until votes are counted in the Democratic Primary for Governor
of Virginia, momentum shifts to Deeds . . . In 4
identical SurveyUSA tracking polls, Deeds' support has gone from 22% to
26% to 29% to today 42%. Deeds finishes ahead of Terry McAuliffe, whose
support has declined in each of the 4 tracking polls and who ends at
30%. Brian Moran, who has treaded water in 4 tracking polls, finishes
3rd, at 21%."